Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:” — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do. Under the want to problem-solve is the need to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
